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thanks for that, I thought I had to try and keep as much of the same water as possible? It makes it easier if I dont have it though. Should I add anything (filter start?) to the new media as wee or do you think just rinsing them in a bucket of tank water with the old sponges will be good enough...

We currently have 120 litre tank and by sunday should have had a 260litre (I think) delivered. How would you suggest as the least stressful way of transfering the fish? I was going to move new tank into position and remove all decoration from smaller tank and put majority of mature water into...

Hi all, just bought a pair of aristogramma(sp) from swallow aquatics today and upon putting them in tank the red tail shark is constantly chasing them. I have turned the light off and that seems to have calmed it down. It is a 120l tank and the shark is about 2.5". Other than that there are some...

ok will do smaller changes, is it ok to use the ammo lock as well or give that a miss?

After the recent death of yet another ram I took the advice of members of this forum and invested in an api test kit. I have been testing twice a week and with regular water changes got the nitrite down to nothing, the nitrate down from 80 to 20. The ammonia however is always at .25, could not...

oh no!!! I have been doing 50% water changes each day since it happened and only used the ammo lock on the first time, just done the tests again and everything is higher, alot higher, yet the fish seem in the best health in ages. Could it be that the ammolock would still be giving me wonky...

oh great so the sponges dont need to be replaced? I will start that next month give the filter bit more time yet cheers for the advice never know get the water right and I may be able to talk the wife into getting a mate for the ram :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Tank had cleared after a couple of hours and all fish seem ok, if anything the corys and the plec have livened up as well, going to do another 50% change tonight and then test from tomorrow that should give the ammo lock time to disapear!! Do you have any experience of the filter system that...

ok now I'm worried, done another water change added the api conditioner but in the last hour I have noticed the water is going cloudy, all the fish seem ok could it be too much or not enough conditoner? It gives two different amounts, one lot to remove chlorine and detoxify heavy metals. Then a...

Damn!! added ammo lock last night for the first time in ages, stress coat says it can be used but have noticed I have API tap water conditioner, any good? Will carry on with water changes for a week, should I keep to 50% or go with say 20%? After the water change last night all fish became very...

Just remembered we had a power cut on thursday and it was off for almost 2 and a half hours, could this have caused a problem with the filters and be the reason for the high ammonia? if so how best do I get it cycling again?

Thanks for all the replies, yes that is the fish and with 3 of them in a 120 litre tank I'm going to have problems arnt I? Will do the water changes now, whats best to condition the new tap water with? stress coat or ammo lock?

good effort!! They are the greedy little so and so's. The shop new I had just bought the juwell lido120 and bear in mind I go in there alot, pretty cheesed off if they are going to get to big for my tank. They are constantly hungry and if it dont go in, they start nipping at the dwarf rainbows...

Also these are the fish I need to know what they are, tried to add in the discussion forum but could not upload. This fish (3 of them) is the reason we feed them every day, they are so greedy when the food goes in and also if they dont get fed every day they start to chase the smaller fish and...

Thanks for that, I will do that tonight, could it just be overfeeding thats causing this to rise? does it seem right that the nitrite is low but the ammonia and nitrate are high(er)? Thanks again for the help

Hi all I am new to the forum but have been reading it for a while now, posted for the first time last night about a poorly ram which died within 3 hours. Anyway, I was sold 3 of these fish as twin spot barbs, done a bit of research and it aint those! I thonk the ram died due to high ammonia...

I have now been out and bought the api test kits and the results are as follows nitrate 40 ppm nitrite 0ppm ammonia between o and 0.25 ppm ph about 8 Does the above make any more sense to you!!! Are frequent water changes the way to go for the next few days, as most of the advice was to but api...

Just to got back from walking the dog and unfortunately the ram has died, cant believe this has happened so quickly

Thanks minxyfishy, The "gasping" and this is going to sound really stupid is now more like its gills are really moving elaboratly and his mouth opening and closing alot but does not seem as bad now, not quite gasping if you like! Hopefully I have caught it early maybe. Regarding the "twin spot...

No there is no fungus, since the water change he has come out and swimming about a bit with his mate, think I will get a diffderent test kit in the morning and maybe do another water change, all other fish are ok though, shame really although its my little boys tank (he is 2, likes the colours)...

Thanks for the quick replies, the temp is 28 degrees, I would say its clean! I do regular water changes, have 2 filters running. The test results are (and youll have to bear with me on this) NO3 between 10 and 25, NO2 between 0 and 1 (more often O though), GH was betwwen 10 and 16, KH about 6...

Hi all, been a lurker on this forum for a few weeks now and have generally learnt lots of bits and pieces. We have a juwel 120 thats been up and running for a couple of months now, tranfsered an additional internal filter from a smaller tank we had before as well so the cycling should not be a...